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Ahem. Hinderaker Forgot To Mention The Disbarred Jenna Ellis and The Censured Sidney Powell… Y A W N

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This morning, Hinderaker thinks that a few hateful bubble headed bleach blonde women are proof of Tangerine’s appeal with real, strong powerful (and compassionate) American women.

Not so.

He lists Sarah Huckabee as among his “proofs” — that’s just… comical. She’s an… idiot and her father’s ideologue.

Most of the women who took leading roles for Trump last time are either in hiding (Ivanka and Betsy DeVos) or under investigation (Ex-Speaker McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao) or disbarred and / or suspended from the practice of law.

H I L A R I O U S.

In point of fact, none of these Eva Braun / ditzes will matter.

The weather will be nice and warm Tuesday, in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Expect turnout to be high, and thus expect Kamala will carry all three of these. Without at least two of them, Tangerine has no path to 271.

None.

See ‘ya Johnnie.

Out.

Supremes: Provisional Ballots In Pennsylvania Must Be Counted… As The Penn. Supreme Court Has Ruled, Under State Law.

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The specific dispute concerns only two ballots, from the long over primaries in Pennsylvania. And the Court correctly concluded that the way Pennsylvania handles this should not be upset, just four nights before the general election.

The Justices offered this statement, denying the GOP’s attempt to prevent the counting of these provisional ballots:

…The application of the State Supreme Court’s interpretation in the upcoming election is a matter of considerable importance, but even if we agreed with the applicants’ federal constitutional argument (a question on which I express no view at this time), we could not prevent the consequences they fear. The lower court’s judgment concerns just two votes in the long-completed Pennsylvania primary. Staying that judgment would not impose any binding obligation on any of the Pennsylvania officials who are responsible for the conduct of this year’s election.

And because the only state election officials who are parties in this case are the members of the board of elections in one small county, we cannot order other election boards to sequester affected ballots. For these reasons, I agree with the order denying the application….

Perhaps a small matter, but it does give me the impression that the Supremes are not going to unduly push their thumbs onto the scales in the 2024 general, to aid Tangerine. Excellent.

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When Using A Euphemism… For An Insurrection, Hinderaker Must Be Called Out On It.

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Hinderaker’s deceitful rhetoric is in high dungeon this morning… as he worries that Tangerine has lost the election, already. [Almost half of the nation has already cast their ballots, you see.]

He wants us to believe that there is a moral equivalence between J6 (depicted at right; with his and Tucker’s endorsement of it) — and the entirely lawful (specifically designed into the Constitution itself!) 2000 Supreme Court case after the Gore v. Bush election, and the peaceful, quiet protests (and about three court cases)… after 2016’s.

On January 6, 2021 — at Tangerine’s direction, a mob engaged in felony murder, beat and overwhelmed Capitol Police and DC Police — set fires; threw smoke bombs and ransacked Congressional offices. And stole a podium off the House floor. For several hours the rioters threatened the lives of the Senators and the Vice President, trapped inside the building.

After all that failed, Tangerine still filed 63 lawsuits (all of those failed) — and continues to deny that he lost by about 8 million votes, in 2020.

Thus there is manifestly no comparison between what the MAGAts did, and Bush / Gore 2000 (and what Trump is now openly threatening to do, when he comes up short by about 11 million votes, here in 2024).

None. Take a seat — you putz.

While the election is indeed quite close, your suggestion that honest errors in mainstream polls are (somehow) nefarious — while outright jimmying with them (by Rasmussen, for example — or the wash trading, in the Polymarket betting pools!) is not… is just silly.

African Union Health Chief Says Mpox Is “Not Under Control” And New Case Rates On The Continent Are “Still Rising”…

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This is particularly discouraging news.

It is discouraging, primarily because this is simply a resource allocation problem.

That is, there is a working vaccine — there are experimental therapies; and there are test kits, all specifically for Mpox. But all three categories of these are in very short supply inside DRC and the other 18 African nations now afflicted. Globally, we need to be spending much more to arrest this outbreak. Fatality rates approach 20% among the afflicted (if untreated), and over 65% of those afflicted are… children. Here’s Al Jezeera’s latest — on it all:

…The African Union’s health watchdog has warned that the mpox outbreak was still not under control and appealed for resources to avoid a “more severe” pandemic than COVID-19.

“The situation is not yet under control, we are still on the upward trend generally,” Ngashi Ngongo from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) told a briefing on Thursday.

“What we need is the continuous political and financial mobilisation,” Ngongo said, adding that this was a necessary measure to stop mpox from being another pandemic “which would be much more severe than COVID-19”.

Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected animals but can also be passed from human to human through close physical contact….

When you know better — you must do better.

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More Encouraging News, Out Of Rwanda — On Marburg Outbreak 2024…

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This is encouraging — the trend is more and more toward… arrest, of the viral loads.

We will keep our fingers crossed — as CIDRAP has the latest, here:

…Yesterday Rwanda reported one new Marburg virus case — a known contact of an earlier case, but officials said they were cautiously optimistic the outbreak of the deadly filovirus was dwindling.

“It’s not time to declare victory, but we are headed in that direction,” said Yvan Butera, MD, PhD, Rwanda’s minister of state, standing in for the country’s health minister during an Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) briefing today….

In related news, the Sabin Vaccine Institute announced on X it was sending 1,000 more doses of the experimental Marburg vaccine was being send to Rwanda after the initial 1,700 vaccines were sent in September. The Institute said 1,600 doses have already been used in at-risk populations, including healthcare workers….

These (at top, above — far right) are electron scanning microscope images of the individual particles of Marburg virus. Other graphics here show them speckling the top of a u-shaped cell structure, but these are the actual, individual lil’ critters, above.

Now you know.

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“Karl, The Drapery Guy”… Gets This Much RIGHT: Tangerine Is A Menace — To Ordered Liberty.

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I honestly think Arnold was largely a worthless governor in California — gutting public university funding, and delaying my son’s graduation by a full year in the process.

So my own policy disagreements with him would run several pages. But he knows what it is, to be a real American. He is disgusted by Trumpism. And Trump.

Let’s listen in — from his letter and video, on X-itter this week:

…[R]ejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is [sic] a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do.

You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious….

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea – that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful….

I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us….

Well. He’s not wrong.

Stick a fork in Tangerine. He’s… utterly done. Overcooked. Charred, in fact.

Out.

Trump’s $WLFI Crypto- Offering Slashes Raise By 90% — Lack Of Demand; Not Even At $15 Million Yet.

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As we mentioned last week, the court ordered monitor over his affairs — retired USDC Senior Judge Barbara Jones — reported that he’s running this new token scam through about 23 new entities. The implication was that the NY AG needed to seek a court order for the monitor to be able to keep tabs on these new entities.

The World Liberty Financial token, or $WLFI, had targeted an initial raise of $300 million.

As of this Monday, it still hadn’t sold $10 million worth. So today, it dropped the raise target to… $30 million — down 90%… and it is still about 66% shy of that reduced goal.

If the offering doesn’t reach $30 million, Trump cannot sell his own free tokens in the deal.

One might well ALSO read this (in contrast to the dumb money in the Polymarket betting) as the smart money saying he ain’t gonna’ hold office ever again — and most likely… only ultimately move to new digs (in 2025 or so)… in an orange jumpsuit. A guest of the federal BoP.

Ouch. Onward, to Tuesday. Buckle up, buttercup!

Halloween Barsoomian Space Fun! Phobos Makes “Spooky Eye” Transit Of Sun — Videoed By Perseverance, On Mars!

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Do watch the video — at actual speed, the transit takes under a minute. That gives a sense of the immense distances between these three bodies.

The waifish potato-shaped moon Phobos — one of two Martian moons — cast a silhouette as it passed in front of our own Sol, creating an “spooky eye” — in Mars’ dusk-skies, a few weeks ago.

Now do be safe — and have fun later this afternoon, one and all! Here’s the NASA bit, on the video below:

…From its perch on the western wall of Mars’ Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently spied a “googly eye” peering down from space. The pupil in this celestial gaze is the Martian moon Phobos, and the iris is our Sun.

Captured by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on Sept. 30, the 1,285th Martian day of Perseverance’s mission, the event took place when the potato-shaped moon passed directly between the Sun and a point on the surface of Mars, obscuring a large part of the Sun’s disc. At the same time that Phobos appeared as a large black disc rapidly moving across the face of the Sun, its shadow, or antumbra, moved across the planet’s surface….

Now you know. Grin.

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Well… It Seems Paul Mirengoff Is Pretty Sure Trump Will Lose Tuesday. “Trump ISN’T CAPABLE of philosophical thought.”

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The long knives are coming — for Tangerine.

Hinderaker FINALLY(!) noticed Tangerine’s falling favorables, yesterday… and this morning, Paul openly savages him — while saying Trump is not (strictly speaking) a fascist:

…Gens. Mark Milley and John Kelly have accused Donald Trump of being a fascist — “fascist to the core,” according to the overwrought and seemingly ignorant Milley. Both retired generals hope the fact that they worked with Trump during his first term lends credibility to their name calling.

But John Bolton, another of Trump’s unhappy first-term advisers, rejects the fascist label as applied to his former boss. He says that fascism is a “comprehensive ideology” and that “Trump isn’t capable of philosophical thought….”

That’s… spot on.

As I close, I’ll post the clip of Trump nearly falling over, missing the door handle and generally looking very frail — at the garbage truck cosplay yesterday:

https://x.com/mattmfm/status/1851765350477754842

https://x.com/i/status/1851765350477754842

This would be disqualifying — if it had been seen of HRC or Mr. Biden, in the eyes of the Powerline boys, at least. As it is, the old coot Scott Johnson celebrates it — twice!

UPDATE: The Attempts By The State Of Texas — To Offer Unqualified, Lay Opinions… As “Evidence” — And Admit Hearsay, Generally… Are Just Comical.

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Next week, when the trial gets underway in Del Rio, Texas, before the able USDC Senior Judge Ezra… this will all get sorted out. And most of the Texas “evidence” will be bounced — as inadmissable.

Hilarious. But here’s a bit from the US’s 22 page federal trial court filing, lodged before Judge Ezra overnight:

…Letter from Gregory S. Davidson, Executive Clerk to the Governor of Texas, to the Secretary of State of Texas dated Dec. 16, 2022, enclosing Proclamation of same date signed by Governor Greg Abbott

Hearsay; Improper lay opinion

118.T Letter from Gregory S. Davidson, Executive Clerk to the Governor of Texas, to the Secretary of State of Texas dated Jan. 20, 2023, enclosing Proclamation of same date signed by Governor Greg Abbott

Hearsay; Improper lay opinion

118.U Letter from Gregory S. Davidson, Executive Clerk to the Governor of Texas, to the Secretary of State of Texas dated Feb. 20, 2023, enclosing Proclamation of same date signed by Governor Greg Abbott

Hearsay; Improper lay opinion….

Yep — there’s 22 pages full of that nonsense. MAGA TX Gov. Abbott will lose. Onward.

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